| Title | Cheongju Dream Start Expands its Customized Services for Underprivileged Children |
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| Writer | Cheongju |
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Cheongju Dream Start Expands its Customized Services for Underprivileged Children
- Cheongju finds beneficiaries of the integrated children case management program, sends them a notice, and visit relevant institutions - Cheongju expands 31 Dream Start Programs and develops local resources proactively On February 14, Cheongju announced that they will provide integrated and customized services for underprivileged children through 2024 Cheongju Dream Start Project. In 2024, Cheongju will provide customized services for 520 children through case management by operating 31 programs and developing local resources. The Dream Start Project selects children under 12 from the legally underprivileged (people eligible for assistances, the second-lowest income bracket, and single-parent families) as case management subjects, analyzes their needs, and provides customized services based on local resources. The Dream Start Team consisting of nine child case managers and one local social worker is helping underprivileged children step towards their dreams. ▶ Proactively finding integrated child case management subjects In 2023, the total number of children under 12 in Cheongju was 89,719. Of them, the number of underprivileged children (people eligible for assistances, the second-lowest income bracket, and single-parent families) is 3,807. Cheongju is managing 437 Dream Start beneficiaries from 260 households. The goal number of child beneficiaries is 520 this year. Cheongju is putting forth the efforts to eliminate the blind spots of welfare by sending a notice of integrated child case management to 932 institutions (71 local centers for children, 120 kindergartens, 577 child care centers, 98 elementary schools, 43 eup/myeon/dong community service centers, four public health centers, and 19 other institutions including multipurpose social welfare centers) and visit each institution. ▶ 31 customized Dream Start programs Cheongju operates 31 Dream Start programs of four different fields. The Dream Start Project consists of 13 physical health programs including health management support; six mental health and behavior programs including Internet addiction prevention; seven cognitive and language programs including self-protection enhancement; and five parent and family programs. △ 13 physical health programs include physical examinations for school-age children, provision of general medical expenses, health management support, residential environmental improvement, door-to-door hygiene education, and provision of dietary supplements. The health management support program provides children requiring immune system and disease management with counseling and treatment services in collaboration with local hospital so that health risk factors can be found early on and proper treatment is provided. They also provide cleaning and tidying education and pest control services on a regular basis in order to improve home hygiene. As a new program, they also provide all-inclusive nutritional food supplements for malnourished, low-weight, or small children. △Six mental health and behavior programs include Internet addiction prevention, pottery making, family healing program, development of five senses, and creative art. They provide counseling service and Internet addiction prevention education for children who have difficulty in their daily lives due to Internet addiction. They also provide pottery making and cultural contents for families. In addition, they provide the five senses development program in which instructors visit each household with a preschooler ages 18 months to 4 years and provide door-to-door five senses based contents. Through the creative art program which is a new project, they visit each household and provide door-to-door art class to develop the creativity and imagination of children ages 4 to 7. △ They operate seven cognitive and language programs including self-protection enhancement, psychological testing, psychotherapy, bibliotherapy, career education, and basic study support. The self-protection enhancement program helps children develop an ability to protect themselves through children’s rights and digital sex crime prevention education. Through bibliotherapy, instructors visit each household with a preschooler once a week and provide customized reading activities. Through career education, elementary school students can experience a variety of jobs and think about their future career in detail. The basic study support program matches implementing agencies to students and provides door-to-door tutor services focusing on Korean, English, and mathematics. English will be newly added this year to the preexisting subjects (Korean and mathematics). △ Five parent and family programs include non-face-to-face parenting coaching and family photo shooting. Through 1:1 non-face-to-face parenting coaching, they help parents understand child development and expect improvement in their family relationships. They also offer family photo sessions and frames for families who don't have family or wedding photos. Visit Cheongju Dream Start Website (https://www.dreamstart.go.kr/cjsi/) for further information. A city official of Cheongju said, "We will do our best this year as well to provide a safe environment for underprivileged children and for anti-poverty. If you find any child who needs welfare services, contact Cheongju Dream Start (+82-43-201-1951 to 1959), eup/myeon/dong community service centers, and child welfare centers." |
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